Which distance is
greater,
the geographic distance that separates the continents and nations,
or the distance heart to heart that separates humanity?
Imagine a voyage across twelve time zones.

The
story is fiction. It is a healing story unfolding in the background to a
love affair between three people in which many barriers are crossed. The
story begins in Hawaii. When the world of tragedy from an accidental nuclear
holocaust catches up with them, the three set sail on a voyage that takes
them across twelve time zones to distant Russia, the home of one of the
three. The time zones also stand analogous for the distance they cross
between one-another and their cultural backgrounds.

The
story, Time Zones, is a chapter from the novel, Brighter than the
Sun, by Rolf A. F. Witzsche.